Along the southwestern edge of a dried-up lake in the Nefud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, four footprints sit side by side ...

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Digital reconstruction suggests an early human from Morocco may have looked remarkably similar to people today.

An adult skull fragment from the Drimolen cave confirms Homo erectus lived in South Africa 2 million years ago, about 200,000 ...

Armed with strategy, language, and fire, Homo sapiens pushed into every corner of the world. Rivals vanished—only they ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of one of the earliest known members of our species, giving us an idea of what humans ...

Archaeologists identified hominin fossils in South Africa, including a 2-million-year-old adult Homo erectus fossil.

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New research suggests the origins of modern humans may have begun by the sea in southern Africa 70,000 years ago.

You can now see a facial reconstruction — and the particular hairstyle — of a man who lived more than 3,000 years ago in what ...

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The effects of social isolation are clear, and so is the antidote to rising levels of unhappiness.